Historical Hermeneutics of Musical Styles

The relevance of the study of the historical hermeneutics of musical styles is determined by the need to find a philosophical basis for changing the cultural paradigm and the desire to return classical canons to musical art in particular. The aim of the work is to analyse the characteristic features of the interpretation of musical styles in accordance with the principles of historical hermeneutics on the example of jazz music. The research was conducted in two stages on the basis of interdisciplinary, systematic and hermeneutical approaches using general scientific methods of cognition: analysis, synthesis, systematization, comparison and ascent from the abstract to the concrete. In the process of scientific research, the views of researchers on the interpretation and understanding of hermeneutics in the context of musical art were considered; a general characteristic of the hermeneutics of musical styles in accordance with historical and philosophical prerequisites was given; the main elements of the theoretical model of musical philosophy of interpretation, which include critical interpretation, the purpose of interpretation, compatibility with description and limitation by requirements were described; the author’s concept of interpretation of musical styles, formed at three levels, were proposed; the characteristics of the hermeneutics of jazz style, in particular the presence of musical improvisational discourse, historical duality, transcendentality of content and form, advertising integration are determined; the article summarizes the specifics of jazz in accordance with two components: the European harmonic system and the fret principles of blues intonation, which made it possible to identify and generalize the theory of interpretation of jazz in the historical and philosophical paradigm. The practical value of scientific work consists in providing a comprehensive hermeneutical base of jazz style in order to further improve the practical application of musical style by teachers, students, musicians and specialists in the field of musical art.

Diverser a project of inclusive education from and for diversity

This article is a systematization of experiences related to inclusive education. From which the Universidad del Atlántico has been a leader in knowledge, promoting the development and transformation of the Caribbean region. Through a critical interpretation of this experience in its reconstruction, to understand the phenomenon, discover, and explain the logic of the process, the factors that have intervened in it, how they have related to each other and why they have done it in that way and not another. The systematizations of experiences involve a reflection on the practice, recapitulate what has been done, to relate it to other experiences or theoretical constructs that support or sustain it. It is a search for logic of meaning through the pertinent theorization with the developed actions. Once the results were obtained, a validation of them was conducted through a traffic light. For the indicators measured in the different scales (frequency, recognition, and existence), the percentage of people who had a favorable response was calculated and based on this percentage, the traffic light was obtained, achieving some results with which they triangle with the experiences conducted and the theoretical foundations. The scope of this research, established as a defined purpose for the educational community of the Universidad del Atlántico to take a critical approach to the experiences developed from an institutional project. Which accounts for learning that contributes to improving them, with the aim of contributing to a critical dialogue between the actors of educational processes?

Introduction

The introduction reimagines the historical narrative of rivalry between increasingly specialized cultures of medicine and the arts in the Romantic period as instead a period of mutual exchange. This familiar history is belied by the historical movement of the terms “autopsy” and “verve,” which traveled in opposite directions between medical and literary fields during the height of the British Romantic period. The crossing of “autopsy” and “verve” between fields introduces the book’s principal concerns: how shared concepts and critical practices were exchanged between letters and medicine, how new structures of thought crossed between biological and textual concerns, and how tropes of organicity, disease, and treatment in Romantic texts reveal the diagnostic practices that bridged literary and medical cultures. Through a study of the great developments in the history of medicine in this period, and the “metapothecaries” like Samuel Taylor Coleridge who considered literature and medicine through a shared ontology, the chapter argues that Romantic literature develops the notion of protocols of diagnosis—the idea that the same protocols of critical interpretation can be used by doctors to diagnose disease, and by readers to understand works of fiction and poetry. Outlining four protocols of diagnosis that the rest of the book will elaborate, the chapter concludes by linking these four formulations to modern methodologies of critical reading, exploring the resonance of this history to contemporary reflections on the history of what has come to be called “symptomatic reading.”

Disinformation in Poland: Thematic classification based on content analysis of fake news from 2019

The paper presents a qualitative study of fake news on Polish-language internet media that seeks to arrive at their thematic classification in order to identify areas particularly vulnerable to disinformation in Poland. Fake news examples from 2019 were selected using popular Polish fact-checking sites (N = 192) and subjected to textual analysis and coding procedure to establish the thematic categories and specific topics most often encountered in this type of disinformation, with the following thematic categories identified in the process: political and economic; social; gossip/rumour; extreme; pseudo-scientific; worldview; historical; and commercial. The study culminates in a critical interpretation of results and discussion of the phenomenon in its Polish and international contexts. Among discussed conclusions is the dominance of content related to the government, Catholic Church, and LGBT issues in the Polish context, as well as the longevity of health-based fake news, especially anti-vaccination content, that points to the global impact of fake news and calls for action to prevent its spread.

Generation and network analysis of an RNA-seq transcriptional atlas for the rat.

The laboratory rat is an important model for biomedical research. To generate a comprehensive rat transcriptomic atlas, we curated and down-loaded 7700 rat RNA-seq datasets from public repositories, down-sampled them to a common depth and quantified expression. Data from 590 rat tissues and cells, averaged from each Bioproject, can be visualised and queried at http://biogps.org/ratatlas. Gene correlation network (GCN) analysis revealed clusters of transcripts that were tissue or cell-type restricted and contained transcription factors implicated in lineage determination. Other clusters were enriched for transcripts associated with biological processes. Many of these clusters overlap with previous data from analysis of other species whilst some (e.g. expressed specifically in immune cells, retina/pineal gland, pituitary and germ cells) are unique to these data. GCN on large subsets of the data related specifically to liver, nervous system, kidney, musculoskeletal system and cardiovascular system enabled deconvolution of cell-type specific signatures. The approach is extensible and the dataset can be used as a point of reference from which to analyse the transcriptomes of cell types and tissues that have not yet been sampled. Sets of strictly co-expressed transcripts provide a resource for critical interpretation of single cell RNA-seq data.

Conservation through knowledge: the case study of Parma Botanic Garden

In the restoration field it is well known that the preservation of cultural heritage stands on a deep comprehension of the architectural object, material expression of a complex system made of cultural, technological, historical, social and economic issues. The knowledge of such meaningful structures requires the identification of both typological features and peculiar characteristics, within an interactive dialogue between contributions from different disciplines. Thus, the study of existing buildings is a complex process that needs to be planned: that means conceived, organized and realized with a critical method. The paper aims to show an example of this approach by presenting the knowledge path followed for the analysis of the Botanic Garden in Parma, Italy. This green area is located in the south of the city and hosts several buildings including the school of botany and the elegant greenhouse, built at the end of the 18th century. Recently, the restoration of the architectural complex has been proposed, aiming at its valorisation. The design process was supported by the studies and the analysis of the existing buildings carried out by the research group in Restoration of the University of Parma. In the specific, the constructive phases have been investigated through historical archive researches whereas the current structural systems have been studied through the geometric survey. Moreover, in-situ inspections allowed to define materials, deepening the knowledge of structural elements and their state of conservation. Finally, the survey of the crack pattern and decay allows to highlight vulnerabilities and mechanisms of collapse. In this way, it has been possible to understand the architectural structure thanks to the comparison between all data collected. On the other hand, in order to respect the historical construction, these analyses are required to reach a satisfying level of detail with the minimum action on the material construction, preferring non-destructive investigations. This approach entails assumptions and uncertainties that could be managed thanks to a critical interpretation of the results. Thus, the case study of Parma Botanic Garden shows the importance of planning the knowledge path with awareness in order to progressively deepen the comprehension with an interactive dialogue between the architectural object and the restoration issue.

Toward a Critical Children’s Museology: The Anything Goes Exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw

For decades, Museum Studies scholars have called for a new ‘critical museology’ with greater inclusion of marginalized communities and diversification of exhibition content, but children have been largely ignored in these efforts. This paper explores the possibilities for what I call a new ‘Critical Children’s Museology’ through in-depth analysis of the Anything Goes exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. Curated by 69 children, this ground-breaking exhibition radically broke from current and traditional museological practice by offering prominent institutional space and professional support for children’s cultural production in the form of curated exhibition galleries and programming. I analyze the exhibition, its production process, and its strengths and limitations to consider the possibilities and challenges of bringing child-centred praxis into museology. This work contributes to the larger charge of democratizing museum and curatorial practice by upending the patronizing view of children as passive recipients of museum offerings, focusing instead on their capacities for cultural production, critical interpretation, and curatorial innovation.

The Laughing Philosopher: The Affectionate Laughter of Agnes Heller

This paper is a critical interpretation of the role of laughter in the work of Agnes Heller. Following the distinction between innate affect and culturally conditioned emotion, Heller argues that laughter is an affect that comes as the expressive reaction to the hiatus between the social and the natural. As such, laughter is ubiquitous and yet remains ultimately undefinable, because it signifies the unbridgeable gap between the two worlds that we inhabit at the same time. Laughter thus sonorously presents our human condition as expressible yet not graspable according to a single theory of laughter (superiority, relief, incongruity, and ambivalence, as defined by D. H. Monro), or any combination thereof. Paraphrasing Immanuel Kant, laughter is ultimately the instinct of reason that liberates us from the illusion that a resolution between the two conflicting constituents of our existence is ultimately possible.

Pervivencia e influencia de los mitos fundacionales del franquismo en los textos escolares de la enseñanza secundaria castellanoleonesa

Mientras la historiografía avanza en el desmantelamiento del enfoque franquista sobre la República y la Guerra, cabría preguntarse si la bibliografía escolar abandona al mismo ritmo los presupuestos del canon franquista e incluye el enfoque crítico de los especialistas. La presente investigación tiene por objetivo averiguar el alcance de estos dos fenómenos, a través del análisis crítico del discurso de una treintena de textos escolares de educación secundaria. El currículo de la asignatura de historia, la formación de los autores o la extensión del tema de investigación en los textos son algunos de los factores que consideramos podrían explicar los resultados obtenidos. Dichos resultados confirman la pervivencia de ideas como la inevitabilidad de la guerra, el fracaso del proyecto político republicano o el ambiente de preguerra en la primavera del 36 en el material didáctico, así como la escasa influencia en el ámbito escolar de la interpretación crítica. While historiography advances in the dismantling of the Franco approach on the Republic and the War, it could be asked wether the school bibliography abandons at the same pace the assumptions of the Franco canon and includes the critical approach of the specialists. The present investigation aims to find out the scope of these two phenomena through the critical analysis of the speech of some thirty secondary school textbooks. The curriculum of the history subject, the ideologies of the publishers of textbooks, the academic training of authors, or the space reserved for the subject of research in the textbooks, are some of the factors that could explain the results obtained These results confirm the persistence of ideas such as the inevitability of war, the failure of the republican political project or the pre-war atmosphere in the spring of 1936 in the teaching material, as well as the scarce influence of critical interpretation in schools.